How do students suffer from cognitive load when leading learning for themselves?
Research concludes that [teachers] cannot take for granted that when implementing complex self-directed learning, students are skilled and sufficiently capable of coping equally with the necessary steps while constructing their new knowledge...
In a new paper, Cognitive Skills in Adolescents’ Self-Directed Learning Efficacy (Uus et alm 2022), researchers studied n=82 fifteen-year-olds (from Tallin, Estonia) to examine evidence-based concept construction in a real-life context.
Research aims
The purpose of the research was to investigate self-directed concept constructions using scientific outdoor learning, where students were
